US temporarily lifts Xiaomi investment ban
A judge in the US has ruled that the current sanctions against Xiaomi are unlawful. Donald Trump had blacklisted the smartphone maker just before he left the White House.
Xiaomi was put on the so-called Communist Chinese Military Companies (CCMC) list. US citizens are not allowed to trade with o... Read more
‘TikTok acquisition by Oracle put on back burner’
The acquisition of the social medium TikTok by Oracle seems to have been put on hold for the time being, now that Joe Biden has taken over as US President from Donald Trump. Biden first wants to re-examine the security risks of the app.
According to The Wall Street Journal sources, the US govern... Read more
Xiaomi sues the United States for investment ban
Xiaomi has filed a lawsuit against the American Departments of Defence and Economic Affairs. The smartphone maker considers the investment ban imposed by the US unjustified.
Last month, the United States put Xiaomi on the Entity List. This list includes companies that the US thinks are allied wi... Read more
The many IT challenges Joe Biden will face
As of Wednesday, 20 January 2021, Joe Biden is the new President of the United States. As Biden said in his inauguration speech, he has many problems to tackle. In this modern world, many of those problems are IT-related. What are the challenges facing Biden?
The main issue facing Biden is the t... Read more
EU calls Biden a ‘new dawn’ and advocates for tougher digital laws
The European Union is almost as happy as the Americans who wanted a respite from Trump's chaotic ruling style. It hailed Joe Biden's inauguration as the United States president as a 'new dawn.' However, the EU also insisted that US tech companies need to be regulated.
The EU hopes to stop the 'd... Read more
Alt-right platform Parler removed from app stores
Both Apple and Google have removed the alt-right social media app from their mobile operating systems' stores. In addition, Amazon has taken the platform's website offline.
In doing so, the three companies respond to a storming of the Capitol in Washington last week, which was allegedly triggere... Read more
Hackers got into Trump’s Twitter account, days before 2016 election
Edwin, Mattijs, and Victor are three old chaps from the Netherlands who were able to access Donald Trump's Twitter account in 2016 when they extracted his password from a LinkedIn hack that happened back in 2012.
The three men told reporters that they got the login details from a database that w... Read more
Oracle: stop, think and acquire something other than TikTok
Sometimes rumours confuse us. That our editorial team looks at each other and we conclude someone has a big imagination. Who would come up with such a crazy idea? An acquisition of TikTok by Oracle clearly fits into that category. We don't understand a potential acquisition by Microsoft entirely ei... Read more
TikTok files lawsuit against the Trump-administration
TikTok files a lawsuit against the U.S. government of President Trump. The company calls Trump's decree banning TikTok a way to fuel anti-Chinese rhetoric on the eve of the new presidential elections in the United States.
The American branch of TikTok, as well as its Chinese parent company ByteD... Read more
CIA finds no evidence of Chinese TikTok espionage
According to the U.S. intelligence agency CIA, there is no evidence that the Chinese government gained access to TikTok data. At the same time, the CIA claims that Chinese authorities could intercept the data if they wanted to.
The CIA was recently asked to investigate the threats TikTok poses t... Read more